There won't be any vuvuzelas at next month's test rugby match between the South African Springboks and the New Zealand All-Blacks. “We’d rather not have vuvuzelas,” Golden Lions President Kevin de Klerk was quoted as saying in media reports, because the sound of the instruments will drown out calls by players at lineouts and scrums. ...

Ex-Liverpool player Craig Johnston has written an open letter about the Jabulani ball to FIFA president Sepp Blatter. According to Johnston, the "statistics are showing that [this] is the worst passing, shooting and controlling of the ball of any World Cup in history of the competition." ...

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Paul the Octopus has struck again as he continued his 100% record of predicting Germany's matches after they fell to Spain 0-1 to in the World Cup semi-finals. It was the exact replica of the result of the Euro 2008 final. ...

Tonight, Germany will take on Spain in a titanic clash to decide who joins the Oranje in the final. It will be a rematch of the Euro 2008 final where the Spaniards edged past the Germans 1-0. Germany are three-time winners (in 1954, 1974 and 1990) while Spain have never lifted the Cup before. ...

Despite their unbridled promise, Holland have never won the World Cup, finishing runners-up in 1974 and 1978. On July 11, they will get another chance to lift the most coveted prize in world football after edging past surprise package Uruguay 3-2. ...

We're now down to the last four of the World Cup with 108 players dreaming of winning the most coveted prize in world football. So where do the players from the four semi-finalists play their football during the regular season? ...